Since Valve’s Steam Dev Days event is closed to the press (it’s billed as an “off the record” place for developers to hang out and listen to conference chats,) there isn’t a whole lot of detail emerging from it at present. However, many of the developers attending are interpreting “off the record” as “tweet about it immediately,” which is great news for the rest of us.

Here are a few of the things to emerge from the opening pair of conferences “Steam Machines in 2014” and “The Steam Controller.” Update: Now with proper twitter links, wuu.

For a start, every developer attending got a freebie prototype Steam controller: